Medical Xpress: PHYSorg news tagged with: motor skills http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Therapy helps regenerate child's undeveloped bones Four years ago, Janelly Martinez-Amador was confined to a bed, unable to move even an arm or lift her head. At age 3, the fragile toddler had the gross motor skills of a newborn and a ventilator kept her alive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-therapy-regenerate-child-undeveloped-bones.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:28:38 EST news286010877 Musicians who learn a new melody demonstrate enhanced skill after a night's sleep (Medical Xpress)—A new study that examined how the brain learns and retains motor skills provides insight into musical skill. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-musicians-melody-skill-night.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:40:02 EST news284883273 Early music lessons boost brain development, researchers find If you started piano lessons in grade one, or played the recorder in kindergarten, thank your parents and teachers. Those lessons you dreaded – or loved – helped develop your brain. The younger you started music lessons, the stronger the connections in your brain. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-early-music-lessons-boost-brain.html Neuroscience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:19:57 EST news279886737 Baby started to crawl? You might be up more at night Infants who have started crawling wake up more often at night compared to the period before the crawling, reveals a new study by Dr. Dina Cohen of the University of Haifa's Department of Counseling and Human Development. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-baby-night.html Pediatrics Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:53:03 EST news276346371 Unique treatment proposed for children's developmental coordination disorder An Indiana University study in the Journal of Child Neurology proposes an innovative treatment for developmental coordination disorder, a potentially debilitating neurological disorder in which the development of a child's fine or gross motor skills, or both, is impaired. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-unique-treatment-children-developmental-disorder.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:26:14 EST news273129960 Near-complete blood flow restoration critical for best outcomes in stroke Two Rhode Island Hospital researchers recently found that restoring near-complete blood flow to the brain is necessary to restore or preserve neurological function following stroke. Seems like a no-brainer, right? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-near-complete-blood-critical-outcomes.html Cardiology Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:19:02 EST news270919131 Computer modeling shows how medications play a part in the Parkinson's experience (Medical Xpress)—A University of Western Sydney researcher has developed a new computational model, which will improve our understanding of how Parkinson's disease (PD) medications affect the brain and cognition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-medications-parkinson.html Parkinson's & Movement disorders Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:23:13 EST news266566970 Physical education is good for kids' grades, study finds (HealthDay) -- Boosting students' levels of physical education improves their grades, a new, small study says. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-physical-good-kids-grades.html Health Mon, 28 May 2012 03:55:51 EST news257396139 A place to play: Researcher designs schoolyard for children with autism A Kansas State University graduate student is creating a schoolyard that can become a therapeutic landscape for children with autism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-schoolyard-children-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Mon, 07 May 2012 12:45:19 EST news255613510 New study shows minority toddlers with autism are more delayed than affected Caucasian peers The first prospective study of ethnic differences in the symptoms of autism in toddlers shows that children from a minority background have more delayed language, communication and gross motor skills than Caucasian children with the disorder. Researchers at the Kennedy Krieger Institute concluded that subtle developmental delays may be going unaddressed in minority toddlers until more severe symptoms develop. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-minority-toddlers-autism-affected-caucasian.html Autism spectrum disorders Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:49:50 EST news249050978 Autism affects motor skills, study indicates (Medical Xpress) -- Children with autism often have problems developing motor skills, such as running, throwing a ball or even learning how to write. But scientists have not known whether those difficulties run in families or are linked to autism. New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis points to autism as the culprit. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-autism-affects-motor-skills.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:02:49 EST news248508149 'Very promising' treatment for Huntington disease discovered Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have discovered a promising new therapy for Huntington disease that restores lost motor skills and may delay or stop the progression of the disease based on lab model tests, says the lead researcher. Because the new therapy uses a molecule already being used in clinical trials for other diseases, it could be used in a clinical trial for Huntington disease within the next one to two years. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-treatment-huntington-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:00:07 EST news248366614 Electrical stimulation to the brain makes learning easier (Medical Xpress) -- A new study presented at the British Science Festival by Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg from the University of Oxford shows that the application of small electrical currents to specific parts of the brain can increase activity and make learning easier. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-electrical-brain-easier.html Neuroscience Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:07:24 EST news235836260 Study: Lead exposure decreases Indian children's hand-eye coordination (Medical Xpress) -- Young Indian children exposed to lead poisoning scored low on tests that measured hand-eye coordination, a new study finds. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-exposure-decreases-indian-children-hand-eye.html Health Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:30:01 EST news233993564 Study demonstrates how memory can be preserved -- and forgetting prevented As any student who's had to study for multiple exams can tell you, trying to learn two different sets of facts one after another is challenging. As you study for the physics exam, almost inevitably some of the information for the history exam is forgotten. It's been widely believed that this interference between memories develops because the brain simply doesn't have the capacity necessary to process both memories in quick succession. But is this truly the case? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-memory-.html Neuroscience Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:36:11 EST news229350874 In motor learning, it's actions, not intentions, that count Albert Einstein defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Practicing the same task repetitively, though, tends to be the default procedure when trying to learn a new motor skill. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-motor-actions-intentions.html Neuroscience Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:34:22 EST news228069248 Routine screening for autism not needed: researchers Proposals recommending routine screening of all children for autism gets a thumbs down from researchers at McMaster University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-routine-screening-autism.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:20:05 EST news227073834